Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-04-21

ter b now . healthy woman, and every
member Of my family has enjoyed un-
interrupted good health, and l fed q
though had new lease Of life.
1 find the soil identical with the land
east, and free from alkali (Which 80 ser
iously Injuries some land), or if there be
any it is in so limited space and small
quantity as not to injure man or beast.
l find our oldest land in cultivation
(some broke in 1879 and in crop every
year since) to produce the best and most
corn, also of other grain.
The salubrity of the climate, absence
of any local cause to produce malaria.
the purity and abundance of water, the
fertility Of the soil, adapted to every
grain grown in Illinois, Iowa and Mis-
souri,; the certainty that fruit and for
est trees, grapes and small fruits can be
successfully grown, together with the
further fact, and one of great import
ance, that the advantages above enum-
Grated conduce to healthfulness In man.
and are equally beneficial to the brute
creation, convince me that in very few
years this will be one Of the most pro-
ductive of fat stock regions in America.
Without gross carelessness there will
never be hog cholera, or pleuro-pneu-
monia in cattle. And l confidently pre-
dict that in few years one Of the most
important points in the United States
for packing beef and hogs will beeither
in Colby or very near.
From the foregoing you can easily
foresee the brilliant future of this coun-
try. The rapidly decreasing volume of
public land, and the hardships incident
to the first settlement of a new country,
will be powerful argument with inn
migrants to purchase land, or claims.
where they have railroad, school and
church facilities assured, and where
they can know for a certainty the quail
ty and cost of abundant water. All
these we have.
cannot close without abiding to the
prospects of Colby for railroad connec-
tons. The road from Oakley is an ac-
complished fact. The Missouri Pacific
company is now acquiring right of way
in Sheridan, the county east, and cannot
fail to connect with the Oakley road at
Colby. The B. & NJ. has surveyed its
line from Oberlin and Ramona to Colby,
being on its direct line to Pueblo. The
Chicago & Northwestern company is
certainly heading this way from Hast
ines, Neb., having Pueblo, Col, as its
objective point. A glance at the map
will show that Colby is on the line, and
and the rich country to be traversed will
forbid its taking any other route, or
missing Colby. The Atchison Il Santa
Fee is building northwest from.
The splendid farming land of Sheridan,
Thomas, Rawlins and Cheyenne will be
a convincing argument to make Colby a
noint.nn tia line q e, .ufS1e,, on Uup-
kar q 5ntSses ex plscfations be realized,
Colby will be the commercial center of
the great Northwest Kansas, the most
eligible locations for stockyards, pack
ing houses, and as consequence for
wholesale establishments in the west.
| have given YOU the facts in my ex-
perience o:twcnty eight years. From
those facts you can judge for yourselves
as to the nationality OF the expectations
in the future. But if Kansas should
progress in the coming 81 years As much
as in the past, Colby will be greater,
Weather than Topeka, Hans, or Hast
ingS, Nebr., now are. Sincerely wish
ing you success, | am truly yours,
J. f. Doom.